Kendrick Bangs
Kellogg grew up in Mission Beach, in the backyard of his family
home, where he is said to have designed and built his first structure
(a fort or club house of sorts). He attended the University of
Colorado, University of Southern California, and the University
of California at Berkeley.

In April 1955,
Ken and his fellow architecture students from the University of
Colorado (Boulder) took a field trip to see the architecture of
Phoenix and Scottsdale. Here he met Frank Lloyd Wright and heard
him speak for the first time. In his interview with Mr. Wright,
Ken realized that the unaccredited school may not be the best direction
to take at the time but hung on every of Mr. Wright's words. He
would later hear a great number of stories from Taliesin Fellows
about their time with Mr. Wright.

Ken Kellogg returned
to San Diego and short stints in the offices of Sim Bruce Richards
(during the summer of ’55 and ’56 building models for
residences on the Kona Coast of Hawaii and in Rancho Santa Fe)
and Dale Naegle.

Ken met Russell
and Vergie Babcock at the time they were renting a 2nd floor apartment
on Bayside Walk in Mission Beach from a family friend. It was at
a time when Ken was discovering himself through Frank Lloyd Wright’s
work and philosophy. Russell Babcock told Ken of the house they
hired Lloyd Wright to build at the north end of park ave overhanging
mission valley – though
it was never built. The Babcocks initially asked Ken to
design an addition to their "Sanatorium" in National
City, and then in the summer of 1957, they told him of their purchase
of a small lot off San Luis Ray Place and asked him to design a
house. They requested an "A-frame" with a copper roof,
and the Babcock Residence was born.

Ken became
friends with La Jolla architect (and former Taliesin Fellow) Frederick
Liebhart. As a boy (the future president) of Chart House Restaurant,
Buzzy Bent, worked on Fred's house as a laborer---and got "organic
architecture" mixed into
his bloodstream. Not too late after starting the Chart House Restaurant
chain in 1960, Buzzy contacted Ken to design their
Santa Barbara location. From there, organic architecture would, in
part, define the chain as unique.

In
1964 Kellogg received his architect's license and in 1966, he obtained
a building contractor's license followed by a national license in
1979 and an international license in 1998.